Getty Images July 10, 2025 Power Hungry: Why Data Centers Are Developing Their Own Energy Sources to Fuel AI The spread of AI data centers is larger, more numerous, and faster-growing than anything that has come before to the electric utilities. The potential for this to cause supply shortages and costs for consumers is plain to see. Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream July 10, 2025 Ask a Scientist: How Livestreaming 100 Hours of Weather and Climate Moved Thousands to Action Michelle Rama-Poccia Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host, Union of Concerned Scientists
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JP Rebello/ USACE December 8, 2022 Missouri Community and Its Children Grappling With Conflicting Nuclear Waste Exposure Reports Chanese A. Forté Scientist
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Fred Schilling/US Supreme Court December 6, 2022 Will We Let the US Supreme Court Further Dismantle Democracy in the Moore v Harper case? Michael Latner Former UCS Fellow
ACES/Brady Delf/Flickr December 5, 2022 More Fossil Natural Gas Won’t Lower High Energy Bills Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash December 5, 2022 Where’s My Train? Chronic Disinvestment in Transit Leaves Us All Stuck Kevin X. Shen Northeast Transportation Policy Analyst/Advocate
Johann Olivier/Flickr December 2, 2022 Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction Derrick Z. Jackson Fellow
A. Eyring/UCS December 1, 2022 Why UCS Supporters Are Pressing EPA to Let California Enforce Its Truck Pollution Rules Dave Cooke Senior Vehicles Analyst
Ikcerog/Wikimedia Commons December 1, 2022 How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future? James Gignac Midwest Policy Director
AP Photo/Lianne Milton, Napa Valley Register November 30, 2022 This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain Omanjana Goswami Interdisciplinary Scientist
D. Reichmuth/UCS November 30, 2022 The Electric Cars of the Future Are Already Here Today David Reichmuth Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program
Stuart Rankin/Flickr November 28, 2022 California Lawmakers Put Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat on Gas Prices Kristy Dahl Former Staff
Patrick Hendry/Unsplash November 22, 2022 Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account Kristie Ellickson Senior Scientist
Yungchin Li/FLickr November 22, 2022 World Heritage at 50: Can We Give a Future to Our Past? UCS Science Network
Douglas Rissing/iStockphoto November 21, 2022 For Global Climate Success, New England Must Seize Climate and Clean Energy Opportunities Roger Stephenson Former Contributor
White House/Flickr November 21, 2022 Why New DOE Battery Recycling and Repurposing Investments Are Crucial to The Future of EVs Jessica Dunn Scientist
Carlos Fernandez, CIW/Flickr November 21, 2022 How Many Farmworkers Are Food Insecure? It’s Hard to Tell Alice Reznickova Former Contributor
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